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speech (house debate) resource
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{
"time": "2014-05-02 12:00:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Robert Goguen (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice, CPC)",
"fr": "M. Robert Goguen (secr\u00e9taire parlementaire du ministre de la Justice, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"3691411\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, the Department of Justice sought outside advice from former Supreme Court justices on the eligibility requirements of a Federal Court judge to the Supreme Court of Canada.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3691412\" data-originallang=\"en\">The legal advice was reviewed and supported by another former Supreme Court justice as well as by leading constitutional scholar Peter Hogg, and this was made public.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3691413\" data-originallang=\"en\">None of these legal experts saw any merit to the position eventually taken by the Supreme Court of Canada, and their views were similar to the dissenting decision of Mr. Justice Moldaver.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"3691411\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, le minist\u00e8re de la Justice a demand\u00e9 un avis externe \u00e0 d'anciens juges de la Cour supr\u00eame pour ce qui est des crit\u00e8res d'admissibilit\u00e9 des juges de la Cour f\u00e9d\u00e9rale \u00e0 la Cour supr\u00eame du Canada.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3691412\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ces conseils juridiques ont \u00e9t\u00e9 examin\u00e9s et appuy\u00e9s par un autre ancien juge de la Cour supr\u00eame de m\u00eame que par un \u00e9minent constitutionnaliste, Peter Hogg. Tout cela a \u00e9t\u00e9 rendu public.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"3691413\" data-originallang=\"en\">Aucun de ces experts juridiques n'a jug\u00e9 que la position adopt\u00e9e par la Cour supr\u00eame du Canada par la suite \u00e9tait justifi\u00e9e, et leurs points de vue \u00e9taient similaires \u00e0 celui du juge Moldaver, qui a pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 une opinion dissidente.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2014/5/2/robert-goguen-5/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/robert-goguen/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4043/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "8335691",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions Orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Justice",
"fr": "La justice"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2014/5/2/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2014%2F5%2F2%2F"
}
}